Community Counseling Center

Programs: Community integration: case management services through community integration are designed for adults to help them maintain their well-being, stability and independence. Case managers help clients find and connect to resources and services, as well as solve problems that threaten self-sufficiency. Case managers also help adult clients find providers in their area, set up services, and assist in arranging transportation if necessary. Case managers are essential supports to adults in need and can act as a person's advocate with various agencies to help develop care plans and coordinate needed services. Clients needing a higher level of service may be part (continued on schedule o) (continued from part iii) community integration: of one of our act teams. Our act teams offer intensive community-based treatment to youth, families and adults in the greater portland area who experience serious mental illness. The goal is to have patients function more successfully in the community without relying on hospital and crisis services. Staff provide medication management, case management, community support and vocational services in addition to intensive individual and family treatment. 7,357 hours of community integration were provided and ccc's two act teams maintain an average census of 110 clients receiving services from the multi-discilplinary teams.

outpatient counseling services: adult outpatient counseling services provides time-sensitive individual, couples, and group therapy to help people who may be struggling with a wide variety of personal and family issues such as relationship concerns, traumatic events, military deployment, emotional difficulties, mental illness or problem behaviors. Adult outpatient counseling services also provides specialized trauma treatment, including dialectical behavioral therapy (dbt), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr). Services to children and families include addressing a broad range of diagnostic presentations, especially depression, anxiety, attention deficit (continued on schedule o) (continued from part iii) outpatient counseling services: disorder, and conduct disorders; substance abuse assessment and counseling; teens requesting services for themselves; uplanned pregnancy; and parenting support. Treatment is family centered, focusing on inherent strengths, unmet needs, and strategies to strengthen familial and social support networks. 17,444 hours of service were provided.

psychiatric services: an integral part of ccc's comprehensive services includes the agency's psychiatric program. Psychiatrists and nurse practitioners work in partnership with the client, their family/support system, clinician and treatment team. Psychiatric staff provide psychiatric evaluation and medication management and also provide consultation to primary care providers. There were 2,265 hours of service provided.

community counseling center offers a variety of programs and services to meet the needs of our community. These include: medication management through on-site psychiatric staff for clients who utilize medication as part of their therapy; elderworks, a day support program for older adults who suffer from chronic mental illness; survivors of torture, a three year, federal grant that provides counseling services to refugees who have survived torture and are traumatized by the violence they experienced in their home countries; the children's initiative, a five year federal grant that provides counseling services for children who have witnessed violence; proud rainbow youth of southern maine, a drop-in program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth that provides leadership opportunities and psycho-educational workshops; and the trauma intervention program, which trains citizen volunteers to provide emotional and practical support to victims of traumatic events.